Chinese-Canadian writer-director Xiaodan He’s film Montreal, My Beautiful is a thoughtful, understated independent film with an ace up its sleeve: the film’s protagonist is played…
Any casual viewer of arthouse cinema from the past decade is likely to experience immediate déjà vu upon sitting down to watch Savage House: what does…
In his 1908 novel A Room with a View, British novelist E.M. Forster probes the conflict between middle-class manners and sensual passion; his alliances lay…
“All films are time travel films, and all films are ghost films,” said filmmaker Mark Jenkin at a post-screening Q&A for the New York Film…
The release of a full-length, stop-motion animated film is a relatively infrequent occasion, given the amount of labor and resources necessary to produce one. I…
The first shot of Julian Chou’s film Blind Love is both jarring and literal: a close-up of a doctor draining a cyst under a twitching…
In an introduction for Bill Morrison’s new film darker, Nitrate Picture Show festival director Peter Bagrov joked that when archivists and preservationists come across reels…
The 10th Nitrate Picture Show, programmed by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, is predicated on a technology both out-of-date and incendiary: the…
Acquired by HBO and released just in time for Emmy consideration, writer-director Jim Rash’s new film Miss You, Love You is a dialogue-driven two-hander that…
A woman, beautiful and a touch removed, travels to Switzerland from Argentina to accept an award. She throws the glass statuette in the bathroom trash,…
On November 1 and 2, 2001, then-28-year-old Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari visited Gaza, and left with about two hours and forty minutes worth of MiniDV…
Shana, Lila Pinell’s debut narrative feature, centers on a character who is immediately compelling, yet whose complexities and internal contradictions unspool gradually throughout the film’s…
Centered in a sepia-toned frame, two young, Black girls sit on a park bench, their backs to the camera. Another child passing by smears one…
While possessing the backdrop and aesthetics of a social realist drama, the narrative foundation of writer-director Pierre Le Gall’s debut feature Flesh and Fuel takes…
Jérôme Reybaud’s concise, lacerating film A Balcony in Limoges appears at first to be an odd-couple comedy, albeit with unresolved psychological trouble churning under the…
Charlie Birns, by his own account, set out to direct a documentary that would re-capture his transcendent experience in an acting class taught by self-styled…
Director Chloé Robichaud’s film Two Women presents as a tale of sexual liberation, wherein two Montréal women trapped in sputtering marriages pursue casual sex that…
If one were being deliberately reductive, the logline for Dutch director-screenwriter Rosanne Pel’s sophomore film Donkey Days could read as a near-exact twin of Joachim…
From above and behind, we watch a man running through a wintry Central Park, his dark clothing marking him as a silhouette against the snow-frosted…
Documentarian Angelo Madsen, in his new documentary of BDSM performance artist Fakir Musafar, captured a tension at the heart of Musafar’s philosophy within the film’s…
“Look at its body,” Melanie Griffith commands with a bawdy dip in vocal tone. The ‘80s icon, star of capitalist fable Working Girl and voyeuristic…